Beam dyeing machine



April 7, 1931.

W. P. HORNBUCKLE ET AL BEAM DYEING MACH INE Filed Deo. 6, .1924 3Sheets-Sheet. 1

April 7, 1931.l w. P. HoRNBucKl- E E'r AL 71,799,421

BEAM DYEING MACHINE April 7, 1931. i wl P. HoRNBUcKLE E'r AL '1,799,421

BEAM DYEING MACHINE Filed Dc. 6, 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 25 below thepartition,

Patented Apr.y 7, 1931 UNITED STATES -1 .1\.Tl?.1\iT OFFICE 'WILLIAM P.HRNBUGKLE AND ROBERT F. CRAIG, STANLEY, NORTH CAROLINA BEAM :DYEINGMAcnINE Application filed December 6, 1924. Seriall No. 754,369.

The invention comprises improved apparatus for dyeing or otherwisetreating yarn or other material in wound masses.

In the drawings Figure-1 shows in top plan, beam dyeing apparatusembodying the invention, parts being broken away; Figure 2 is a verticalsection wherein most parts appear in elevation, some portions of thestructure being broken away; Figure 3 is a vertical section throu h oneof the valve mechanisms; IFigure 41s a horizontal section on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

In Fig. 2 of the drawin s, 1 is a support' for the carryin of any esirednumber o -kiers 2, each o the latter being shown as having itstopcovered by a hinged lid 3 held closed by clamping) means 4. Each Vkieris constructed at'its ase with a transversely 42 extending partition 5having a central opening, and with a tube 6 extending between thepartition and the bottom ofthe kier.' The kier contains the usualchamber 7, above the partition, and an annular compartment 8,

the transversely extending partition having any desired number of oenings 9 serving tion between the chamber 7 and the comartment 8. Thenumeral 10 marks a loom i eam including a foraminous body 11 and p onlyone of such heads being shown, it having a yshort tubular extensionresting in a depressed seat on the partition 5 around the centralopening of the latter, and the beam being clamped in place by the lid 3,if desired.

With the bottoms of the kiers 2 are assembled depending connections 15,communicating with the tubes 6 and with a pipe 16 extending lengthwiseof the series of kiers.

Lateral connections 17 on the kiers 2 establish communication betweenthe compartments 8 and a pipe 18 the latter also extendin lengthwise ofthe series of kiers. va ve casing 19 is provided. A branch pipe 2O leadsfrom the pi e 16 to oneside `of the valve casing 19. team may be in- 20'through a pipe troduced into the p1pe 21. A branch pipe 22 extendsbetween the heads 12,

pipe 18 and the oppositeside of the valve to establish communicaentiallythereof.

' tablished a circuit comprising the pump 26, @the pipe 23, the passage36 in the valvu 3 casing 19. The parts 15--16-20-2a-18- 17 may bealluded to as a first conduit in communication at one end with the kierand the beam, centrally of the latter andi in lcommunication at theother end through the opening 9 with the space between the wall.

of the kier andthe body 11 of the beam 0C- cupying the kier.

A pipe tion of the valve casing 19 and a pump 26. A pipe 27 extendsbetween the pump and the side portion of the valve casing 19. The pipes27 and 23 constitute a pump conduit wherein the pump 26 is interposed,the casing 19 being interposed Ab oth in the pump conduit, and in theirst conduit-'above vdefined. The pipe 23 has a lateral branch 24 at apoint between'the pump 26 and the casing 19 and under the control of ahand valve 2.5. A pipe 28 branched olf from the pipe 27 extends to thebottom of a mixing tank 30 Wherewith the pipe 28 communicates, themixing tank being carried by the support 1. A check-valve the saidmixing tank. Liquid contained in the tank 30 passes into the circulatorysysbeing expelled from the interior of the apparatus upward through pipe28 into the mixing tank by internal. pressure of steam within theapparatus when steam is admitted into the kier through pipes (not shown)for heating up the liquid as customary in practice.

A valve 33 is rotatable inthe casing 19 and is operated by a stem 34.The valve 33 has a transverse passage about half way around the valve,circumfer- Thevalve -33 has an L- shaped passage 36 which opens at oneend through the side of the valve, and at the other end through thebottom ofthe valve.

When the valve 33 is disposed as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the passage36 in the valve 29 in pipe 28 closes toward 35 which extends I miv is 1ncommunication with the pipes 20 and 23, the passage 35 being incommunication with the pipes 27 and 22. Then there is esthe pi e 20,\the pipe 16, the couplings 15, the tu es 6 in the kiers 2, the beams 10,the

chambers 7, the openings 9, the annular come partments 8, the couplings17, the pipe 18, the branch pipe 22, the pa-ssage 35 in the valve 33,the pipe 27 and the pump 26. By the circulation established thereby thedye is caused to pass from the center of the beams outwardly through thethickness of the material upon the beams.

When it is desired to secure a reversal in the direction of the flow ofthe dye, that is to say, from the chambers 7 inwardlythrough thematerial on the beams to the central openings of thel beams, the valve33 is so set that the passage 35 communicates with the pipes 27 and 20,the passage 36 communicating with the pipes 23 and 22. Then there isestablished-a circuit comprising the pump 26,

the pipe 23', the passage 36 in the valve 33,

the pipe 22, the pipe 18, the couplings '17,

` the annular compartments 8, the openings 9,

the chamber 7, the material wound on the barrels 11 of the beams 10, thetubes 6, the connections 15, the pipe 16, the pipe 20, the passage 35,the pipe 27 and the pump 26. f

From the two paragraphs last preceding it will be obvious that a iowfrom the inside of a beam 10 to the outside thereof, or from the outsideof the beam to the inside thereof, may be secured at the will of anoperator, a thorough dyeing of the yarn on the body 11 of the beam beingsecured, and it being unnecessary to unwind the yarn from the sectionbeam in order that the yarn may be dyed.

Suppose that it i-s desired to draw 0E the dye. Then the valve 33 is soset that the pas-v sage 36 does not communicate with the pipe 20, 22, or27, but is closed at its upper end by the wall of valve-casing 4, aswill be apparent from Fig. 4, the passage 35 communieating with thepipes 20, 22' and 27. The dye fromv the kiers 2 Hows through the pipes18 and16. From the pipe 18, the dye passes through the pipe 22, and fromthe pipe 16, the dye passes through the pipe 20. From the pipes 20 and22, the dye traverses the passage 35 in the valve 33 and, flowingthrough the A through the pipe 27 is carried by the pump 26 into thatportion of the-pipe 23 which 1s adjacent to the pump 26, the dye owingaway, to. any suitable place of storage or discharge, pipe 24, the valve25 having been opened. Y

Air under pressure may be introduced into the pipe 20 through a ipe 21for the purpose of expelling some of t e dye liquor from the materialcarried by the beams, after the completion of the dyein operation andfollowing the emptying of t e kiersof dye liquor.

The lid 3 of every kier 2 carries-an inverted U-shaped pipe 31 wherein ahandvalve 32 is interposed, the said pipe 31 extending downwardly into,the top of the mixing tank 30. Only one pipe 31 and its valve the kiersagain for the purpose of circulation through the mixing tank and kiers;another is to provide an air-vent to facilitate drawing-01T the liquidcontents of the kiers. By means of valve 32 the rate of feed throughpipe 31 may be regulated, and thereby the rate of the circulationthrough the mixing tank and kiers. One or more of the pipes 31 may beopened now and then to permit a little dye to run through the same intothe mixing tank 30, so that the attendant may ascertain, by noting thecolorthereof, how much the liquor'has decreased in strength throughabsorption of the dye by the material operated upon.

What is claimed is f 1. In dyeing, etc., apparatus comprising kierconstructed to receive a support for a wound mass, and a conduit havinga branch which communicates with the interior of the kier and with theinterior of the said wound mass, and havingy alsof a second branchcommunicating with the interior of the kier externally of thewound-lmass, the combination therewith' of a valve-casing having threeports in its shell, with one of which one of said conduit-branchescommunicates and with a second of which the other of said branchescommunicates, a pump, a pump-conduit having' one branch in communicationwith ythe third port of the said shell, and a valve-cylinder rotatablymounted within said casing having a through-way includin a port in oneend of'such cylinder in reglster with a second branch of saidpump-conduit'and a lateral port adapted to register in different angularpositions of the cylinder with the two ports first mentioned of thevalve-Casin alternately, and a second through-way whic in the die'rentangular positions of the valvecylinder connects the first and secondports of the valve-casing, alternately, with the said third port andthereby with the pump-conduit branch first mentionedv leading to thepump.

2, The combination with a closed *kier the kiers into the mixing tank 30and into esv apparatus.

In testlmony that we claim the foregoig as our own, we have hereto axedour signatures.

^ WILLIAM P. HORNBUGKLE.

ROBERT F. CRAIG.

